Valerie Miles
Valerie Miles, an editor, writer and translator, co-founded Granta en Español in 2003. She established the NYRB Classics series in Spanish, curated the exhibition dedicated to Roberto Bolaño’s archival papers and edited his posthumous work. She teaches translation and creative writing at the Pompeu Fabra University, has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, El País and the Paris Review, and is the author of A Thousand Forests in One Acorn. She lives in Barcelona, Spain.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Forgotten War
Leila Guerriero
Leila Guerriero investigates the collusion that left so many graves unmarked decades after the Falklands War.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 155
Introduction
Valerie Miles
‘We wanted work of the imagination. Fiction. Consciousness captured on the page.’
Guest editor and co-founder of Granta en Español introduces the issue.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 155
Best Book of 2015: Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo
Valerie Miles
‘Time is a rubber band, and in a single sentence, ghosts and alternative worlds superimpose’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 155
The Power of a Grandmother Named Tranquilina
Valerie Miles
'Never underestimate the power of a grandmother to leave her mark on coming generations, or the taste of her cooking to cause an epiphany big enough to give the world a shiver.'
Essays & Memoir | Issue 155
Poets, Politics and Coca Tea
Valerie Miles
‘Poetry can grab you unawares, overwhelm you. The tears came like a hard rain falling.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 113
Foreword
Valerie Miles & Aurelio Major
The foreword for Granta 113: Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists.
